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- From: Mike Fester <island!fester@uunet.uu.net>
- Subject: Re: The Cessna In Red Square
- Message-ID: <BxyupE.F99@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- References: <BxvFwG.9Gr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:56:02 GMT
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- From Mike Fester <island!fester@uunet.uu.net>
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- In article <BxvFwG.9Gr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Jeffrey Casterline <jlc@u.washington.edu> writes:
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- >From Jeffrey Casterline <jlc@u.washington.edu>
- >
- >
- >Several days ago a poster to the net, when talking about the
- >utility of a 747 vs a B52 vs a B1, noted that perhaps the
- >FSU air defenses weren't up to what we thought they were, and
- >cited the Cessna landing in Red Square as an example of that
- >fact.
- >
- >I thought that this wasn't a failure of air defenses, per se,
- >but rather more a problem with the senior decision-makers. They had
- >a plan for dealing with an obvious threat (like a NATO aircraft
- >penetrating their air space), but did not know what to do with a situation
- >like this. That is, they followed the plane throughout its flight, but
- >couldn't decide what to do about it.
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- I wasn't aware that the plane was actually monitored in flight. Had it been,
- there is little doubt they would have shot it down.
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- As I recall, the incident took place on "Revolution Day" (not really sure what
- they call the anniversery of the revolution), and that many of the border guards
- and other monitors of the airspace were quite simply:
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- DRUNK.
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- Any verification/derisions on this?
-
- Mike
-
- --
- Disclaimer - I'm only doing what the little voices tell me to do.
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